Founding employee of The Roots Logistics and a member of our leadership committee. We are a subsidiary and the logistics division of The Redwood Group. The Redwood Group is a food, feed and energy merchandising and logistics organization with more than 150 team members and over $1B in revenues.Primary focuses include overseeing operations, account management, carrier relationships, safety and compliance while leading our organization to be a first-rate logistics provider in the agriculture, industrial and manufacturing industries.

Oversees account management teams, carrier sales team, and carrier compliance team for all brokerage operations. Facilitates new and current business development, while focusing on the betterment of operations processes and procedures. Actively strives to pursue efficiency improvements and streamlining the brokerage operation. Researches the supply and demand of freight market conditions.Connects new business obtained from the sales to operations. Skilled rate analyst with much focus on RFQ's and contract business development.

Creates revenue growth by directly working with sales team, operations manager and account managers to grow new and existing accounts through account development and client services. Facilitates strong relationships with new and current customers and carriers while influencing smooth accommodations to account managers and operations for continued revenue expansion.

Responsible for the management of overall freight brokerage procedures with an emphasis in steering, facilitating and streamlining logistics operations towards targeted growth and expansion goals. Leads pricing management, aligning market and economic trends with sales initiatives to increase the total number of accounts and increase revenue growth with existing accounts and operations. Oversees carrier qualifications and creates internal carrier monitoring procedures, guidelines and processes in order to properly consider new and existing partner carriers. Improves operational management systems, processes and best practices that optimizes organizational prosperity. Recruit, train, coach, supervise and evaluate operational talent and strive for the betterment of those individuals.

Manager of transportation needs for a diverse group of customers needing asset based and third party logistics services.Leads and manages a multiple office logistics team specializing in the movement of freight of all kinds; including heavy haul, step deck, flatbed, reefer and van freight.Primary focuses include transportation coaching, rate analysis and company growth.

Regional broker for the western half of the U.S. Largest outbound market: Southern California. Truckload brokerage solutions specialist. Responsible for qualifying service providers, and serving customers' needs via over the road trucking, intermodal, and warehousing.

Regional broker for the midwest territory, Chicago being the leading outbound market. Managed customers freight needs, and routed their truckload business through outside service providers. Qualified carriers, serviced customers, and solved problems.

Summer intern between semesters during undergrad education. Assisted operations in international military household goods shipments. Serviced individuals in the movement of their household goods to and from the continental United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Alaska.